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The Reporter. (Akron, Ohio), 1977-08-13

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yi o Ct Unn Swrnit Gaunt Public Library VOL. VIII, NO. 4? 25 CENTS PER COPY An award thinning newspaper - conunel ? AUGUST 1) THRU AUGUST M. MOT IMA IEPVTT IIRECTOR Isaac T. Gillam IV, Director of Space Shuttle Operations at NASA's H.L. Dry den Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., has been named deputy director of the Center, effective immediately. Gillam succeeds Gerald D. Griffin who was named Deputy Director of the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., in June. Dryden is NASA's prime center for aeronautical flight research and conducts programs over .the entire flight regime in support of national, civil and military needs. The Space Shuttle Orfaiter, central element in the nation's new Space Transportation System, is undergoing its initial atmospheric flight tests this year at the center. Later, in 197#, Dryden will be the site of Orfaiter landing and recovery during the first few orbital flight tests. Gillam has been responsible for the Dryden activities in support of the Shuttle tests there. Before Joining Dryden in May 1970, Gillam had been Program Manager of Small Launch Vehicles at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., since June 1873. Hi ? pape Oe NASA Headquarters in IMS as a resources management specialist In February IBM, be was appointed Assistant Delta Program Manager in the Launch Vehicles Directorate and in September 1968, he was named Delta Program Manager. Isaac T. Gillam Before his NASA assignment, GUlam served in the U.S. Air Force from 1963 to 1983 as a pilot, missile launch crew commander and ROTC instructor.A native of little Rock, Ark., Gillam was paduated from Howard University with a bachelor of arts degree in 1963 and did graduate work at Tennessee State University, Nashville, while assigned as Assistant Professor of Air haa received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal lor his activities in the launch vehicle program. He and his wife, the former Norma Hughes of Dallas, have four children. OBWL CAUCUS ELECTION Jennifer Dent Thanks to the rapport of the citizenry and the media throughout the State of Ohio, the Ohio Black Women's Leadership Caucus once again successfully conducted its fourth annual conference which was held in Washington, D C. Hie climax of three days of informative workshops, exciting lectures and a special news briefing was the election of new state officers. Doris B. Rankin-Sells of Cincinnati waa reelected State T>_ ? it ? ->| nttioent. Jennifer Dent, a graduate of Canton McKinley and Aultman Hospital School of Nursing, was elected as financial secretary. She is the president of the Canton Chapter and is employed at program manager of Adult Services of the Stark County Council on Drug Abuse, Inc. She is a member of Turner Chapel UMC, Black Methodist Church for Renewal, Mayor's Task Force on Crime Community Resource Committee, I The Canton Urban League and t volunteer for the American i Cancer Society. Joyce Zachary, a graduate of < Canton McKinley and Canton Actual Business College, was i elected corresponding secretary. She is employed at Timken Co. in the sales department and the bookkeeper Joyce Zachary Deborah Brewer for the Advocates (or Black Community Development, Inc. She la a member of Antioch Baptist Church, treasurer of the Canton Chapter of Black Women's Leadership Caucus and the Canton Black United Fund. Deborah Brewer was elected the state membership coordinator. Originally from Boston, Msaeachuttas, she Is vice-president of the Canton Black Women's Leadership Caucus. She la also the 1977 Chairperson of the Annual Bike Hyke for Tykea. She is married, KM MEETING IN HtIR By Nettle Ctom The National Black Alliance for Graduate Level Edcation will hold it's eighth annual conference October 6-9, 1977. Akron will be host this year for the self-supporting organization consisting of individuals across the country who deal in the problems that Blacks encounter in higher education in general and graduate and professional education in particular. Some of the most scholarly and accomplished speakers have been invited to sat the paoe for the conference to be held at the Holiday Inn Cascade. Some of the main speakers include Dr. Frederick S. Humphries, President Tennessee State University and Dr. Leonard O.H. Spearman, Commissioner of Education, U.S. Health Office of H.E.W. The highlight of the conference will be a benefit performance by actress Cicely Tyson. Some of Miss Tyson's recognitions include her Academy Award nomination performance in Sounder, her remarkable television performance in the Autobiography of Miss Jaae Pittman and her recent performance in "Roots". She is without a doubt the most prominent Black actress of our mom respected actresses in film history. Miss Tysisa will perform on October 8, 1977 at the E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall following a champagne cocktail and dinner to begin at 6:30 p.m. The Black Alliance, under the leadership of President John Wilson, Director of The Black Cultural Center, The University of Akron, is hoping for the Cicely Tys?a support of each and every individual who it concerned about the problems of our black colleges and universities. Anyone interested in attending the conference, contact Deiores May at 375-7080. cost for the entire conference which includes Miss Tyson's performance, luncheons, banquets and all learning materials is $86.00 in advance. Deadline is September 23, 1977. For Miss Tyson's performance only, tickets will go on sale soon and can be purchased through the E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Box Office. More important at this time is the stress for sponsors, patrons, and friends. Any individual or business interested in taking out a sponsors or patrons ad please contact Nettie Cross at 375-7575 as soon as possible. Kent Stkte University'* program to aid Ohio school desegregation efforts has received a $577,500 U.S. Office of Education grant, reflecting a 70 per cent increase in federal funding. "Currently, Ohio is considered by many to be the focal point in the country in desegregation," explained Dr. Robert W. Evans, director of the Kent State Center for Educational Development and Strategic Services (KEDS). He noted that desegregation efforts in major urban areas in Ohio are demonstrating the problem* posed by the prooess. Numerous other Ohio districts | already have undertaken desegregation programs or are about to begin. KEDS, a general assistance center, offers technical assistance to districts through curriculum change and staff development programs. The center's new grant from the U.S. Office of Education is an increase of about $231,000 from the previous year. "We are particularly pleased with the increased allocation," Evans said, adding, "it will enable us to service more people in the need of the center."Evans explained the major goal of the center concerns "the provision of equal educational opportunity for all students. the mother of two children and is a student at the Pattorf Education Center. She hopes to obtain a degree in Computer Data Processing. Other officers include: Marda Rose of Youngstown as first vice-president; Mayme Stephens of Akron as Second Vice-president; Helen Foshee of Akron as recording secretary and Gloria Danieto of Cincinnati as Chaplain. We congratulate the new officers and praise the outgoing officers for their commitment and effort* in the past year. Dr. Robert W. Evans "The focus of our work," he said, "has changed from a broad conference approach to an in-depth, in-district service." He said teaching efforts advocated by KEDS allow desegregation to open the way to constructive questioning of existing racial biases and allow student to better understand themselves as well as children of other races and backgrounds. Evans said during the time KEDS is preparing their proposal for the upcoming year for the Office of Education, "client districts" submit requests for assistance from the center "This is a highly competitive process," Evans said. "While all of this is going on, other agencies are submitting like proposals." Aside from helping districts with desegregation problems, Evans said KEDS also participates in bilingual and bicultural education. "Both areas are an integral part of our work," Evans said, "and this aktra increase in funding will allow us to increase our staff and service more people." JOIN THE NAACP JORDAN CRITICIZES ADMINISTRATION The apMch I made to the National Urban League's Annual Conference analysing the Administration's democratic policies and expressing black disappointment with the record tb date was based on my talks and travels all over the country, and much of what I said has been said by others as well. The President appeared before the same Annual Conference the next morning and gave an effective defense of Ms Administration, as did a manber of Cabinet officers and other key figures in Washington. That kind of public dialogue is an important phenomenon. It E; some neglected issues back o the field of public discussion, where they belong And it informed the Administration that a performances to date. When the dust had cleared and all sides made their case, the situation facing black people was unchanged and die analysis is this: The Carter Administration was elected t part of its conis unhappy with its Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. campaign promises of full employment and urban revitaliiatkm would be fulfilled To date, despite some significant steps in HUD's block grant program, in youth employment, and other areas, black expectations have not been fulfilled. A basic reason for this may be that priorities are askew. Instead of full employment, balancing the budget by 1981 has become the top priority. Energy, controlling have all been given greater urgency than a national urban policy, national health insurance and other basic human needs programs. A case may be made for the importance of the items the Administration has choeen to make its priorities, but to the degree that emphasis on balanced budgets restrict* its ability to inaugurate needed social reforms, the hopes of poor people will be frustrated. I understand the need for balanced budgets, but human needs must have priority. And if the price of balanced budgets i> continued Joblessness, poverty and urban deterioration, then we're only laying the groundwork for possibly insoluble social problems in the 1980s. The positive changes that took place in the 1960s were arrested for much of this decade. To some degree those gains have helped foster expectations on the part of minorities and the poor that must now be satisfied When Nixon and Ford occupied the White House many people realized that little could be expected in the way of social reforms, but that situation to November. A vMf, President vu elected by a coalition of labor, blacks, minorities, poor people, and others who renewed their faith in the political system in backing a candidate who promised Jobs and reform. The President has proved adept at signal-sending. By emphasizing human rights, he's sent signals tof the world's dictators to shape 19. By selling the Presidential yacht and other symbolic moves, he's signalled his countrymen that the Imperial Presidency is at an end. Now, he should send soma signals to the poor people whs " so much faith In ***rn and in his Administration. He conM make symbolic visits to urban ghettoes, change the misguided welfare reform plan, and express in legislative terms bis commitment to expanded Jobcreation beyond the limited measures already taken. A new Administration can't do everything In enly six months, but it can set a new tone and it can frame strategies it will follow in the next four years. That's the point of the t pressure black people are now exerting on Washington ? to return the Administration to .whftt we feel are Us t _ _ _ _ _ Wjs _# itincts of neiptni mm tM w the poor. ?MUCUS ENDORSES JORDAN'S CRITICISM WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Congressional Black Caucus said it endorses Vernon Jordan's criticism of President Carter's . programs for minorities and warned that Mack support for the President is "eroding." Five of the 16 Caucus members also said at a news conference that Carter's response to the criticism from Jordan, Executive Director of the Urban League, was "profoundly unfortunate, thoroughly unfounded..." Jordan told the League's convention Sunday that black people are "disenchanted with the administration they elected... black people feel that their hopes and needs have been betrayed." Carter said at his news conference Thursday that if Jordan was saying his administration was not concerned CongTcnman Charles B. Rangcl about the poor then such allegations are "demogogic or erroneous." "What Vernon Jordan said was something someone had to say because his statements were true," said Rep. Yvonne Burke, (D-Calif.) , ' Rep. Charles Rangel, <DN.Y.), said "for many months now, we (the. caucus) have restrained ourselves from getting into a confrontation with the President of the United States which we knew ultimately would happen " "We are acutely aware that black support for the President is eroding," said Rep. John Conyers, (D- Mich.) "It is too early, however, to state what this means in terms of the I960 elections." Conyers also said: "Our backs art to the wall. There la no way we can come back in three years to our communities and tell them why the President should be re-elected. The crisis of black America will bo unabated and that will spell trouble. "I think the President cares. The question is whether ho futty perceives the crisis in bbtefif A m arlnn " /\menca. Conyers said the Cauetis wants to meet with other Mat* leaden across the country to explore the issue further Ml that "we're asking for an important dialogue with til* President" Conyers said CarttV' "deserves credit for some of the ' accomplishments that bo lists.. .but we do not see a vision of the future that includes reducing unemployment to the point that every person dssiring work may do so." PHYSICIAN HONORED Earl S. Sherard, ' M.D., the Columbus Childrens Hospital chief of pediatric netarology, joined a special group of Ohioans when he ! received the Ohio Governor'* Award. Dr. Sherard was one of 22 persons honored this year in the program which was created in 1949 to recognize Ohio natives and residents whose careers have benefited mankind and brought honor to their state. Other recipients of the award have come from every field of human endeavor and include such remarkable Ohioans as Dr. Albert Sabin, Bob Hope, Jesse Owens, and Neil Armstrong.Dr. Sherard received his M.D from the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1961 and Joined the faculty there three years later following service which included a residency and fellowship at Children's Hospital. He now serves as professor of pediatrics and director of the division of pediatric neurology In the College of Medicine. Dr. Sherard is affiliated with Earl S. Sherard, Jr., M.D. the American Academy of Pediatric*, the National Medical Association and the Columbus Academy of Medicine. He is a member of the Columbus Civil Service Commission, the Urban League and the NAACP. , SUBSCRIBE TO THE REPORTER KNRFESS BEGMES CMBIBATE Ohio House Minority Leader Charles Kurfeas (R-Bowling Green) will be in Akron August 25 at 7:30 at the University Club, speaking on behalf of his campaign for governor of Ohio. After waiting several months, for incumbent Governor James Rhodes to announce if he will seek another term, Kurfeas decided he could wait no longer. Laat month he formally an nounced hit candidacy at a news conference, and has been on the campaign trail ever since. Kurfeea will be appearing before the Greater Akron Young Republican Club, with a cocktail party preceding the 7:30 Speech. The public is I* vited. For further details please contact Program Chairman Tom Watkins at OM613. SPEAKERS AVAILABLE For busy program chairmen planning their yearly schedule of talks, the Speakers' Bureau of Catholic Charities Central Services offers help with some SO topics of interest on more than 40 agencies and institutions of the Federation of Catholic Community Services and Catholic Charities. The talks, some of which use slide presentations, are free of charge to those in the area. Topics cover a wide variety of subjects which include care of the unwed mother, services to children and youth, problems of youth, social and emotional growth of children, volun teering, the retarded child and adult, community program* and services including those for the Inner City, the Vohmtter Visitor Program, services to the alcoholic, fund-raiaing for Catholic Charities, relocating immigrants, care of the elderly, programs for youth and for young parents, social advocacy, Campaign for Human Development/ hunger, rehabilitation, The Little Sisters of the Poor, th% You* Adult and the Church. For a brochure of topics or far information call The Speakers' Bureau, 696-6525, ext. 239, after August ?.

yi o Ct Unn Swrnit Gaunt Public Library VOL. VIII, NO. 4? 25 CENTS PER COPY An award thinning newspaper - conunel ? AUGUST 1) THRU AUGUST M. MOT IMA IEPVTT IIRECTOR Isaac T. Gillam IV, Director of Space Shuttle Operations at NASA's H.L. Dry den Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., has been named deputy director of the Center, effective immediately. Gillam succeeds Gerald D. Griffin who was named Deputy Director of the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., in June. Dryden is NASA's prime center for aeronautical flight research and conducts programs over .the entire flight regime in support of national, civil and military needs. The Space Shuttle Orfaiter, central element in the nation's new Space Transportation System, is undergoing its initial atmospheric flight tests this year at the center. Later, in 197#, Dryden will be the site of Orfaiter landing and recovery during the first few orbital flight tests. Gillam has been responsible for the Dryden activities in support of the Shuttle tests there. Before Joining Dryden in May 1970, Gillam had been Program Manager of Small Launch Vehicles at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., since June 1873. Hi ? pape Oe NASA Headquarters in IMS as a resources management specialist In February IBM, be was appointed Assistant Delta Program Manager in the Launch Vehicles Directorate and in September 1968, he was named Delta Program Manager. Isaac T. Gillam Before his NASA assignment, GUlam served in the U.S. Air Force from 1963 to 1983 as a pilot, missile launch crew commander and ROTC instructor.A native of little Rock, Ark., Gillam was paduated from Howard University with a bachelor of arts degree in 1963 and did graduate work at Tennessee State University, Nashville, while assigned as Assistant Professor of Air haa received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal lor his activities in the launch vehicle program. He and his wife, the former Norma Hughes of Dallas, have four children. OBWL CAUCUS ELECTION Jennifer Dent Thanks to the rapport of the citizenry and the media throughout the State of Ohio, the Ohio Black Women's Leadership Caucus once again successfully conducted its fourth annual conference which was held in Washington, D C. Hie climax of three days of informative workshops, exciting lectures and a special news briefing was the election of new state officers. Doris B. Rankin-Sells of Cincinnati waa reelected State T>_ ? it ? ->| nttioent. Jennifer Dent, a graduate of Canton McKinley and Aultman Hospital School of Nursing, was elected as financial secretary. She is the president of the Canton Chapter and is employed at program manager of Adult Services of the Stark County Council on Drug Abuse, Inc. She is a member of Turner Chapel UMC, Black Methodist Church for Renewal, Mayor's Task Force on Crime Community Resource Committee, I The Canton Urban League and t volunteer for the American i Cancer Society. Joyce Zachary, a graduate of < Canton McKinley and Canton Actual Business College, was i elected corresponding secretary. She is employed at Timken Co. in the sales department and the bookkeeper Joyce Zachary Deborah Brewer for the Advocates (or Black Community Development, Inc. She la a member of Antioch Baptist Church, treasurer of the Canton Chapter of Black Women's Leadership Caucus and the Canton Black United Fund. Deborah Brewer was elected the state membership coordinator. Originally from Boston, Msaeachuttas, she Is vice-president of the Canton Black Women's Leadership Caucus. She la also the 1977 Chairperson of the Annual Bike Hyke for Tykea. She is married, KM MEETING IN HtIR By Nettle Ctom The National Black Alliance for Graduate Level Edcation will hold it's eighth annual conference October 6-9, 1977. Akron will be host this year for the self-supporting organization consisting of individuals across the country who deal in the problems that Blacks encounter in higher education in general and graduate and professional education in particular. Some of the most scholarly and accomplished speakers have been invited to sat the paoe for the conference to be held at the Holiday Inn Cascade. Some of the main speakers include Dr. Frederick S. Humphries, President Tennessee State University and Dr. Leonard O.H. Spearman, Commissioner of Education, U.S. Health Office of H.E.W. The highlight of the conference will be a benefit performance by actress Cicely Tyson. Some of Miss Tyson's recognitions include her Academy Award nomination performance in Sounder, her remarkable television performance in the Autobiography of Miss Jaae Pittman and her recent performance in "Roots". She is without a doubt the most prominent Black actress of our mom respected actresses in film history. Miss Tysisa will perform on October 8, 1977 at the E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall following a champagne cocktail and dinner to begin at 6:30 p.m. The Black Alliance, under the leadership of President John Wilson, Director of The Black Cultural Center, The University of Akron, is hoping for the Cicely Tys?a support of each and every individual who it concerned about the problems of our black colleges and universities. Anyone interested in attending the conference, contact Deiores May at 375-7080. cost for the entire conference which includes Miss Tyson's performance, luncheons, banquets and all learning materials is $86.00 in advance. Deadline is September 23, 1977. For Miss Tyson's performance only, tickets will go on sale soon and can be purchased through the E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Box Office. More important at this time is the stress for sponsors, patrons, and friends. Any individual or business interested in taking out a sponsors or patrons ad please contact Nettie Cross at 375-7575 as soon as possible. Kent Stkte University'* program to aid Ohio school desegregation efforts has received a $577,500 U.S. Office of Education grant, reflecting a 70 per cent increase in federal funding. "Currently, Ohio is considered by many to be the focal point in the country in desegregation," explained Dr. Robert W. Evans, director of the Kent State Center for Educational Development and Strategic Services (KEDS). He noted that desegregation efforts in major urban areas in Ohio are demonstrating the problem* posed by the prooess. Numerous other Ohio districts | already have undertaken desegregation programs or are about to begin. KEDS, a general assistance center, offers technical assistance to districts through curriculum change and staff development programs. The center's new grant from the U.S. Office of Education is an increase of about $231,000 from the previous year. "We are particularly pleased with the increased allocation," Evans said, adding, "it will enable us to service more people in the need of the center."Evans explained the major goal of the center concerns "the provision of equal educational opportunity for all students. the mother of two children and is a student at the Pattorf Education Center. She hopes to obtain a degree in Computer Data Processing. Other officers include: Marda Rose of Youngstown as first vice-president; Mayme Stephens of Akron as Second Vice-president; Helen Foshee of Akron as recording secretary and Gloria Danieto of Cincinnati as Chaplain. We congratulate the new officers and praise the outgoing officers for their commitment and effort* in the past year. Dr. Robert W. Evans "The focus of our work," he said, "has changed from a broad conference approach to an in-depth, in-district service." He said teaching efforts advocated by KEDS allow desegregation to open the way to constructive questioning of existing racial biases and allow student to better understand themselves as well as children of other races and backgrounds. Evans said during the time KEDS is preparing their proposal for the upcoming year for the Office of Education, "client districts" submit requests for assistance from the center "This is a highly competitive process," Evans said. "While all of this is going on, other agencies are submitting like proposals." Aside from helping districts with desegregation problems, Evans said KEDS also participates in bilingual and bicultural education. "Both areas are an integral part of our work," Evans said, "and this aktra increase in funding will allow us to increase our staff and service more people." JOIN THE NAACP JORDAN CRITICIZES ADMINISTRATION The apMch I made to the National Urban League's Annual Conference analysing the Administration's democratic policies and expressing black disappointment with the record tb date was based on my talks and travels all over the country, and much of what I said has been said by others as well. The President appeared before the same Annual Conference the next morning and gave an effective defense of Ms Administration, as did a manber of Cabinet officers and other key figures in Washington. That kind of public dialogue is an important phenomenon. It E; some neglected issues back o the field of public discussion, where they belong And it informed the Administration that a performances to date. When the dust had cleared and all sides made their case, the situation facing black people was unchanged and die analysis is this: The Carter Administration was elected t part of its conis unhappy with its Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. campaign promises of full employment and urban revitaliiatkm would be fulfilled To date, despite some significant steps in HUD's block grant program, in youth employment, and other areas, black expectations have not been fulfilled. A basic reason for this may be that priorities are askew. Instead of full employment, balancing the budget by 1981 has become the top priority. Energy, controlling have all been given greater urgency than a national urban policy, national health insurance and other basic human needs programs. A case may be made for the importance of the items the Administration has choeen to make its priorities, but to the degree that emphasis on balanced budgets restrict* its ability to inaugurate needed social reforms, the hopes of poor people will be frustrated. I understand the need for balanced budgets, but human needs must have priority. And if the price of balanced budgets i> continued Joblessness, poverty and urban deterioration, then we're only laying the groundwork for possibly insoluble social problems in the 1980s. The positive changes that took place in the 1960s were arrested for much of this decade. To some degree those gains have helped foster expectations on the part of minorities and the poor that must now be satisfied When Nixon and Ford occupied the White House many people realized that little could be expected in the way of social reforms, but that situation to November. A vMf, President vu elected by a coalition of labor, blacks, minorities, poor people, and others who renewed their faith in the political system in backing a candidate who promised Jobs and reform. The President has proved adept at signal-sending. By emphasizing human rights, he's sent signals tof the world's dictators to shape 19. By selling the Presidential yacht and other symbolic moves, he's signalled his countrymen that the Imperial Presidency is at an end. Now, he should send soma signals to the poor people whs " so much faith In ***rn and in his Administration. He conM make symbolic visits to urban ghettoes, change the misguided welfare reform plan, and express in legislative terms bis commitment to expanded Jobcreation beyond the limited measures already taken. A new Administration can't do everything In enly six months, but it can set a new tone and it can frame strategies it will follow in the next four years. That's the point of the t pressure black people are now exerting on Washington ? to return the Administration to .whftt we feel are Us t _ _ _ _ _ Wjs _# itincts of neiptni mm tM w the poor. ?MUCUS ENDORSES JORDAN'S CRITICISM WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Congressional Black Caucus said it endorses Vernon Jordan's criticism of President Carter's . programs for minorities and warned that Mack support for the President is "eroding." Five of the 16 Caucus members also said at a news conference that Carter's response to the criticism from Jordan, Executive Director of the Urban League, was "profoundly unfortunate, thoroughly unfounded..." Jordan told the League's convention Sunday that black people are "disenchanted with the administration they elected... black people feel that their hopes and needs have been betrayed." Carter said at his news conference Thursday that if Jordan was saying his administration was not concerned CongTcnman Charles B. Rangcl about the poor then such allegations are "demogogic or erroneous." "What Vernon Jordan said was something someone had to say because his statements were true," said Rep. Yvonne Burke, (D-Calif.) , ' Rep. Charles Rangel,